Shared Hosting and Kohana

Once upon a time I set out to try and run the Kohana PHP Framwork on godaddy's new grid hosting plan (beta).

If this already sounds like a bad idea to some of you, don't worry, it does to me too. But I was cheap, foolhardy, and bored.

Much to my surprise I was able to get further than expected with the Installation without much trouble. I had downloaded a copy of Kohana from kohanaphp.com and uploaded it to my godaddy hosting account.

I got the "install" screen to come up and tell me that everything was green and happy. I was shocked to find that at least from Kohana's viewpoint everything about my godaddy account was set up as desired.

However there does seem to be a problem with loading anything more than the index page. all urls weather they be written /index.php/welcome or the cleaner /welcome using .htaccess it won't work.

I tried a number of things with .htaccess to attempt to fix the problem to but to no avail. I may attempt this again in the future, but at the end of journey, I ended up getting shared hosting from Web Faction.

It's a little odd at first, but the "PHP, CGI or static site" option that you can use for the software / webapp install as they call it, is configured so that Kohana works perfectly right out of the box. So for now, those of you looking for cheap shared hosting that works well with Kohana, it's a good option.

Tell them "roblynch" refered you and help me keep my personal sites up. Thanks!

If anyone else knows of good shared hosting that supports Kohana please let me know. I'd like to compile a list for the benefit of the community.